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  1. Nilgiri

    Indian Intelligence Services (External)

    More an "M" than a Bond. Big credit to him. ========== NEW DELHI: He wasn’t the classical spy who would go behind enemy lines but knew how to get the job done. Many would know RN Kao as the man who founded R&AW, India’s external intelligence agency, but that’s just one of the achievements of...
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    Breakthrough sciences and technologies

    Sent all replies from "Science and Engineering" thread that was in hobby section to this thread to make a mega thread (effectively merging them). Should be even more interesting read + interaction now hopefully.
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    Historical Warship Design and History

    A good resource @Anmdt @AlphaMike et al: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw/videos
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    Casual Discussion Has anyone here been vaccinated against the coronavirus ?

    @Jackdaws gives his recent account here:
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    It is always the final goal for any scramjet project (application wise), since there will be significant limitations with pure-scramjet going forward. You need to gear/hedge stuff that is good for each regime of speed (past just the apex) for more useful+efficient systems. Essentially why it...
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    India Helicopter Programs

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    Breakthrough sciences and technologies

    Magnetic field lines and plasma!
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    Anti-Muslim pundit leads TV channel to top ratings in France

    @dani92 Look here man, I dont wanna get into this subject with you too much, but you are one that brought in this "Muslim" thing and implying it on France and India only. For strong criticism of diverse-secular countries to hold, muslim world (on muslim basis to use elsewhere) must first apply...
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    India Radar, Sensors and Electronic Warfare Archive

    Lot of sensor improvements lately.
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    India Air-Force Indian Air Force

    Such nice throwback pic, graceful lines from this angle:
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    India Corona thread

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    India Economy + Infra Archive

    Pakistan highest "nuisance" value was given by Chinese in first place (CHIC-4 design). Any case, not just India, but whole civilised world is waking up more to who the biggest adversary to that actually is.
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    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    Some guy is "dutch" origin apparently. Interesting.
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    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    Interesting podcast channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlueSkiesPodcast/videos
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    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    Skipping through very quickly: - A work in progress. - Concern about it co-developed/exported to Pakistan, Bangladesh - S-400 issue, context of the program (F-35 issue) etc - Newer media stuff w.r.t potential malaysia, indonesia cooperation/interest on TF-X etc ================= There is...
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    India Economy + Infra Archive

    I remember when I was about 12, George Fernandes as DM caused quite ruckus by saying just that (China is enemy no 1). Security folks have to always balance what is BOTH the intent but also capability of each adversary, and not just one of those two.
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    The World Turns to China for Vaccines After India, U.S. Stumble

    Haters gonna hate. This includes whatever toxic variant of bigot you find on internet these days. They grow accustomed to whatever echo chamber and filter feed strengthened whatever bias they were preset with. Hence the sermon-spiel-conclusion (already edited by a moderator - so who knows what...

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